Disobey Obedience !!

Obedience can never be a virtue.
After being through the entire rigmarole of school and college life and into a year in a corporate I realize that much. Actually it is in the corporate world that this unsettling understanding established itself in my psyche.
I think obedience is taught as a virtue to make the job of parenting and teaching pain free. What it also creates is a batch of youngsters who cannot act on their own and rely on someone else to make decisions for them.....for many this is something they cannot get rid of in their entire lives.
We are taught to obey unquestioningly in school, obedience is associated with integrity, good character and discipline. At what costs?
It culminates in an unerring dependency on authority for any action. We always have to be told what to do. We obey tyranny, oppression, racism, to keep our own 'moral' high ground (obedience is a virtue after all). In office we defer going against the ruling of the higher ranked person.
There are few 'rebels' who do......who finally earn the right to decide for others and the process continues....
What should be taught to kids is the ability to decide for themselves. It will make a lot of difference to this world.

serendipity

A lovely word ( with no parallel in any other language, I'm told). The reason I like it better than procrastination is because it needs you to try to make something happen. There is a chance element there but that would never come up if one did not attempt anything at all.

I feel most good designs are a result of that. When I think post-its, the kaleidoscope, dominoes ( its other use), tea....someone somewhere was trying something else and they ended up with something wonderful and different.

The lesson is to keep trying ....sooner or later something will go wrong...for the better!!!